10 Things You Need to Know as you start your Tuesday

1. HANDOVER IN AFGHANISTAN. Karzai says his country's armed forces are taking over from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for the first time in the nearly 12-year war.

2. WOMEN GET EQUAL SHOT AT COMBAT ROLES. The military is to announce plans today to let women train as Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and other front-line jobs.

3. G-8 LEADERS SEEK SYRIA AGREEMENT. The leaders were to make a joint statement today on the civil war after Obama and Putin staked out opposite sides.

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4. WHERE JIMMY HOFFA COULD TURN UP. Federal agents are digging again for the Teamster boss' remains, this time in a suburban Detroit field, after a reputed mobster said Hoffa was buried there in a barn.

5. NSA CHIEF GOES BEFORE CONGRESS. Army Gen. Keith Alexander is testifying before a House intelligence committee a day after the president called the agency's surveillance programs "transparent" in an interview.

6. WHEN ABORTIONS WOULD BE BANNED. The Republican-controlled House is expected to pass a bill today that would ban abortions after 20 weeks; the Senate is expected to ignore it.

7. THE STANDING MAN IN TURKEY. The lone protester stood silently for hours in Istanbul's Taksim Square, joined by about 20 others before police trying to contain the two-week-old unrest removed them.

8. PLANE PASSENGER RANTS ABOUT CIA, SPYING. Other passengers and a flight attendant tied the screaming man up after he asked that the U.S.-bound flight be diverted to Canada.